This Cover Of Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs” Gets Ozzy’s Stamp Of Approval

Singer T-Pain proved his talent to surpass autotune with his cover album On Top Of The Covers last year. The long-time entertainer did “Tennessee Whiskey” and Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs,” which received an approving nod from band member Ozzy Osbourne.

Ozzy reposted the video of T-pain’s “War Pig” performance on X, formerly Twitter, with the caption, “This is the best cover of “War Pigs” ever. Why didn’t you guys call me?” This was enough to tell that the Prince of Darkness was nothing less than impressed.

T-Pain responds to Ozzy

T-Pain responded in appreciation towards Ozzy for his public approval. “You’re always invited. Top of the list, every time!! Thank you so much. Means a lot coming from the greatness himself,” he wrote. Fans joined the interaction, encouraging both icons to actually work together. “This kinda collaboration heals timelines,” someone quipped.

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Ozzy’s repost got nearly 200,000 likes and hundreds of comments from fans, many of whom were happy for T-Pain. “Helluva compliment coming from the great Ozzy!” someone exclaimed. “That cover was (fire), and to get a shout-out from the man himself, priceless,” another agreed.

T-Pain was reluctant about doing “War Pigs” as a cover

T-Pain was worried about how fans would receive Ozzy’s song because he did not want to ruin a classic. “It wasn’t because of the difficulty of the song,” he admitted to PopSugar. “It was because I was kind of worried about the reception of it because it’s just like, ‘You sure about that?’ You don’t go messing with people’s classics.”

He also confessed that releasing On Top Of The Covers helped him get comfortable being labeled a “corny guy” for doing things differently from most artists like himself. “I’m kind of liberating myself from the constructs of the industry I grew up in and the company I kept with that. I was told that I wouldn’t be cool if I didn’t like certain things,” he explained. “So I was just like, ‘You know what? All right. I don’t want to be cool anymore.”